Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins

Love ignites in the City That Never Sleeps, but can it last? Hopeless romantic Isla has had a crush on introspective cartoonist Josh since their first year at the School of America in Paris. And after a chance encounter in Manhattan over the summer, romance might be closer than Isla imagined. But as they begin their senior year back in France, Isla and Josh are forced to confront the challenges every young couple must face, including family drama, uncertainty about their college futures,...

First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros #3

It’s midnight, it’s sweltering, and I might be high on Vicodin, but that guy – that guy right over there – that’s him. Quite a short first paragraph, but there you go. That's the first paragraph (and sentence) of Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins. It's the third in the series though you don't necessarily need to read them in sequence, as each book can stand alone. I've read the first two books. Nothing great, more of books that you read to pass the time but won't really make...

Review: Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins

Budding designer Lola Nolan doesn't believe in fashion... she believes in costume. The more expressive the outfit – the more sparkly, more wild – the better. And life is pretty close to perfect for Lola, especially with her hot rocker boyfriend. That is, until the Bell twins, Calliope and Cricket return to the neighbourhood and unearth a past of hurt that Lola thought was long buried. So when talented inventor Cricket steps out from his twin sister's shadow and back into Lola's life, she...

Damn scammers. ;p

So when I was looking around instagram and facebook today, there were all these posts that an instagram account (@FullyBookedPh) was giving away 2.5k GCs to its first 10k followers. Too good to be true so I ignored it. Anyway, here's the real deal for those who did repost it. The official announcement that, yes, it's was a load of bull....

Review: Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green, David Levithan

Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green, David Levithan Genres: Young adult, contemporary, romance, glbt, realistic fiction One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two teens—both named Will Grayson—are about to cross paths. As their worlds collide and intertwine, the Will Graysons find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, building toward romantic turns-of-heart and the epic production of history’s most fabulous high school musical. Hilarious,...

First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros #2

When I was little, my dad used to tell me, "Will, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick you friend's nose." This seemed like a reasonably astute observation to me when I was eight, but it turns out to be incorrect on a few levels. To begin with, you cannot possibly pick your friends, or else I never would have ended up with Tiny Cooper. Tiny Cooper is not the world's gayest person, and he is not the world's largest person, but I believe he may be the...

Review: On The Count Of Tree by Maureen Johnson

On the Count of Three by Maureen Johnson Genres: Young adult, glbt, romance, contemporary, realistic fiction What happens when your two best friends fall in love...with each other? "Their friendship went so far back, it bordered on the Biblical -- in the beginning, there was Nina and Avery and Mel." So says high school senior Nina Bermudez about herself and her two best friends, nicknamed "The Bermudez Triangle" by a jealous wannabe back on Nina's eleventh birthday. But the threesome...